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The Unicode people don’t sit around and invent characters – nor do they systematically determine the complete list of characters that should be in the standard.
by celoyd 14y ago
The Unicode people don’t sit around and invent characters – nor do they systematically determine the complete list of characters that should be in the standard.
Instead, they consider proposals from people who want their already-in-use character sets to included in the standard. So if someone proposes SINGING OCTOPUS, DANCING OCTOPUS, and SINGING SQUID, but not DANCING SQUID, well, DANCING SQUID won’t be in Unicode. There are lots of gaps like this.
- Erwin 14y agoThe dancing octopus will have to wait for the next version. The unicode consortium is currently only adding the SMILING OCTOPUS: http://codepoints.net/U+1F419 http://codepoints.net/U+1F419 Probably not supported by your browser's font just yet: 🐙🐙🐙
- steveklabnik 14y agoIt is in my Firefox Aurora. :D Thanks for sharing codepoints.net, I didn't know about it before. I wish the campfire :metal: emoji was in 'actual emoji'...
- a_p 14y agoI haven't looked at the Supplementary Multilingual Plane: Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs [1F300...1F5FF] in a while. My favorite characters are 👹 (Japanese Ogre)👺(Japanese Goblin)👻(Ghost) and 👽(Extra Terrestrial). The symbol 💣 (Bomb, 1F4A3) is useful for reviewing movies using Leonard Maltin's notation.
- anfedorov 14y agoSince we're picking favorites, why not the happy pile of poo? 💩 It's not officially supposed to be happy, but Apple seems to have decided eyes and a smile would give it more character. http://codepoints.net/U+1F4A9 http://codepoints.net/U+1F4A9
- omarali 14y agoWorks on Opera too.
- nsxwolf 14y ago🐙🐙🐙 Yes!
- hyh1048576 14y agoOn Mac OS X with Chrome, I cannot see that. But copying this to the address bar gives a red octopus, so funny!
- rmrfrmrf 14y agoInterestingly enough, the octopus shows up but the proposed Bitcoin symbol doesn't (iOS 6)
- ihuman 14y agoInteresting. I'm also on iOS 6 and both show up for me. I wonder why. Edit: in safari, the symbol shows correctly in the window header, but not the page itself. In news:yc, a hacker news app, the symbol shows up fine. It also shows up in the WebView in news:yc.
- shocks 14y agoFirefox Nightly reporting in 🐙🐙🐙
- WickyNilliams 14y agoInterestingly, works on chrome android, but not chrome OSX. If it's copy and pasted elsewhere in OSX though it comes up as a red octopus
- andrewflnr 14y agoGot it in ios 5, which came out a while ago. Title character is still just a square. Weird.
- iso8859-1 14y agoThe word "smiling" does not appear on the linked page.
- mhartl 14y agoIt works in Firefox 19.0.2 and Safari 6.0.3 but not in Chrome 26.0.1410.43.